The European Union has a new plan to spend $840 billion more on its own defense after President Donald Trump paused aid to Ukraine and peace negotiations hit a wall. “I do not need to describe the grave nature of the threats that we face, or the devastating consequences that we will have to endure if those threats would come to pass,” EU Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen...

FIRST ON FOX: A conservative nonprofit group will blanket the airwaves with an ad before and after President Donald Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday night, touting his tax cut plan and promising more “winning” as his term unfolds.  “He’s back,” says the 30-second ad from the Plymouth Union Public Advocacy, a conservative nonprofit organization that “aims to advance public policies that make America stronger and more prosperous.”  “And that...

Tonight’s speech is technically not a “State of the Union.” They usually eschew that title this time around, since the president has only been in office a few weeks. Interestingly, nothing in the Constitution requires a speech. Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution says the “President Shall from time to time give Congress information on the State of the Union.” President George Washington gave the first such...